Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Schmitt, George Peter January 13, 1942
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 14, 1942

 George Peter Schmitt, aged 54, husband of Mrs. Minnie Schmitt, and son of Mrs. 
Barbara Tuefel and the late Peter Schmitt, died at the U.S. Naval Hospital, 
Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Mr. Schmitt was a native of 
Woodlawn, Long Island, N.Y., and a resident of Norfolk for the past 27 years, 
residing at 210 East Thirteenth Street at the time of his death. Besides his 
wife, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Barbara Tuefel Schmitt, of New York; 
four sisters, Mrs. Catherine Cole, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mrs. Dorothy Kearney, of 
Ozone Park, Long Island, N.Y.; Mrs. Elizabeth Mickle, of New Jersey and Miss 
Rose Schmitt, of Long Island and two brothers, Peter Schmitt, of Brooklyn and 
Frank Schmitt of New Jersey. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the 
H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, 1501 Colonial Avenue, Thursday at 12 o'clock 
noon. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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GEORGE PETER SCHMITT — Funeral services for Mr. Schmitt, who died Tuesday at the 
U. S. Naval Hospi­tal, Portsmouth, were held yesterday at noon at the chapel of 
the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, 1501 Colonial avenue, with the Rev. Peter 
Schoutten, of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, officiating. There was a large 
attendance and many floral offerings. The casket was covered with an American 
flag. Interment was in St. Mary's Cemetery, with military honors. A volley was 
fired by a firing squad and a bugler sounded “taps” at the grave. The 
pallbearers were A. L. Denofa, Tony Pennello, Frank Senick, William Hayhurst, M. 
Ban­non and Harold Lloyd.

Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 16, 1942


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